A brief history of R0 and a recipe for its calculation

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A brief history of R0 and a recipe for its calculation

Heesterbeek, J.A.P.

(2002) Acta biotheoretica, volume 50, issue 3, pp. 189 - 204

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Abstract

In this paper I present the genesis of R 0 in demography, ecology and epidemiology, from embryo to its current adult form. I argue on why it has taken so long for the concept to mature in epidemiology when there were ample opportunities for cross-fertilisation from demography and ecology from ... read more where it reached adulthood fifty years earlier. Today, R 0 is a more fully developed adult in epidemiology than in demography. In the final section I give an algorithm for its calculation in heterogeneous populations show less